Blogs from Melaka, Malaysia, Asia - page 37

Hello everyone, lots of things have happened in the last three days. I left the Hangout Hotel, Singapore on Sunday morning and headed for Malaysia. It was a straight forward 3 hour drive in a comfortable bus with air conditioning. I really have got to get rid of some things out of my rucksack though, it is still far to heavy for me to carry on my back. I fear I may come back Hunch Backed if I don't take somethng out. On first appearance Malaysia is a lot more rough round the edges than Singapore and we were a little worried at first when we saw some of the surrounding buildings. However, when we were presented with the Hotel Aldy I knew we were in safe hands. We spent the afternoon walking around. You do ... read more

The GAA Allstars Hurling game in the Singapore Polo Grounds....surreal to say the least. But great fun, booze and free food! Followed by an Irish bar....you just can't get away from them! Departed Singapore Monday for the short hop across the causeway border into Malaysia. Decided to take it easy on the first leg of my mammoth journey and stay in Johor Bahru, located just the other side of the causeway. It was my first ride on my mountain bike with both slicks and fully laden panniers so it took a bit of getting used to. So only 28km's were clocked on the first day's ride. Tuesday, I was headed for the not so beautiful coastal town of Bata Pahat. What I thought would be a 100km max six hour trip turned into a 142km undulating ... read more

We have just mished on our second day in Melaka, walking around for a good 3 hours trying to find anything...well eh....exciting..!!..Mission failed though as all we saw were run down shops and buildings - Melaka is described as a triving Malaysian city, but this must be past glory as we saw nothing of the kind. Yes, Melaka is definately in need of a make-over!!! Where is are the queer guys when you need them?? The area where we are staying (China Town) is probably the nicest area with cute little shops and bars - quite a relief to have picked something decent after our "Little India" experience in Singapore. The thing that is really weird thing here is that everybody stares at us - as if they have never seen two gooooorgeous Western woman before ... read more

After flying from Hanoi to Singapore we moved on up to Melaka in Malaysia for a few days. This is a place with a 'multi-cultural' heritage it has in the past been occupied by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, then the British before being handed back to the locals. Hence there are many interesting buildings in Melaka. For us it was nice to get back to somewhere with some proper sun. We wandered around the old town and had a good look at the crafts in Chinatown. Jason finally got a bongo drum that he had kept going on about. We then went to see the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe for a pound each!! Bargain! We went back to Singapore after Melaka and did some of the stuff we never got the time to ... read more

Oh Melaka! Wish I had some beautiful landscape and buildings to show you, but unfortunately it was party, party, party!... read more